Chapter Summaries

Anastasia relived the Romanov family’s execution in a nightmare, then woke to learn that the massacre had really happened and Roy had saved her and her sisters. She reunited with her sisters and Roy, but learned that her parents and Alexei had died.

• Nicholas II learned that Mikhail had died and prepared to shelter his family when guards announced an emergency.
• Yurovsky led the Romanov family and their attendants into the basement, where he shot Nicholas II and the guards killed the others.
• Anastasia was shot while watching her family die and prayed for her Godfather to save her.
• Anastasia woke eight days later in Peter and Paul Church, reunited with Olga, Tatiana, and Maria, and learned that Roy had saved them.
• Roy brought Anastasia soup, and she eagerly clung to him before asking about her parents and Alexei.
• Roy told Anastasia that Nicholas II had refused his help and that her parents and Alexei had died.

After the Romanov family’s deaths, Roy helped the four Imperial Princesses decide their futures: Olga, Tatiana, and Maria chose the Church, while Anastasia insisted on staying with him. Their discussion was interrupted by the appearance of Crimson Shadow, whom Roy recognized as the Cleaner, and the chapter ended as the figure summoned a longbow.

• Roy showed the Imperial Princesses a newspaper reporting that the White Army had found their family’s bodies in Yekaterinburg, and promised to arrange their burial at Peter and Paul Church.
• Roy offered to send the sisters to North America under new identities, and Olga, Tatiana, and Maria chose to become nuns.
• Anastasia refused to become a nun or leave for North America, declaring that she wanted to stay with Roy.
• Olga agreed to entrust Anastasia to Roy while she and her other sisters joined the Church and used their inheritance for charitable work.
• Crimson Shadow appeared outside the church window, and Roy identified him as the Cleaner before he raised his hands and summoned a longbow.

Roy discovered that the Counter Force’s guardian was targeting Anastasia, so he took her to the Winter Palace and began a ritual to summon her future Heroic Spirit self. The summoning drew that self through a frozen Russian Lostbelt, and Roy’s special ritual began fusing her with the White-Winged Duke’s Spiritual Foundation.

• Roy caught the Counter Force’s arrow, destroyed its guardian, and realized the attacks were aimed at Anastasia rather than her sisters.
• Roy carried Anastasia to the Winter Palace and opened the hidden treasury behind the Madonna of Benois painting.
• Anastasia recognized and took a fairy doll connected to her final moments, while Roy prepared a Heroic Spirit summoning ritual using it, a crystal, and a Holy Grail fragment.
• Roy gave Anastasia Nicholas II’s edict passing the throne to her, then went into the corridor to hold off Shirou Emiya’s Crimson Shadow.
• Anastasia summoned her future Heroic Spirit self, whose arrival carried her into a frozen Russian Lostbelt and transformed her with the fairy’s power.
• Roy’s divine Spiritual Foundation entered Anastasia and began merging with the Heroic Spirit’s information.

Anastasia completed her fusion with the Lostbelt and a Main God-level Spiritual Foundation, becoming a powerful Heroic Spirit sustained by the Holy Grail. After she defeated the Counter Force’s Guardian with her ice powers and Viy’s Mystic Eyes, the Guardian returned, and Roy activated a ritual to threaten Alaya.

• Anastasia emerged from the summoning as the Grand Duchess of the Permafrost and hurried to Roy.
• The Counter Force’s Guardian attacked Anastasia, and she froze Shirou Emiya before summoning the Kremlin as her Inherent Domain.
• Shirou Emiya used Unlimited Blade Works and Broken Phantasms to damage the Kremlin, but Anastasia unleashed Viy’s power and killed him in the blizzard.
• Anastasia dismissed her Inherent Domain and returned with Roy to the museum, where she asked for his praise and introduced him to Viy.
• The Guardian appeared again, so Roy told Anastasia to stay behind him and activated the Human Order Rectification Ritual, declaring, “I am Alaya!”

Roy used the Human Order Rectification Ritual to protect Anastasia from the Counter Force, then arranged for her sisters to flee to North America. In September, he misdirected officers searching for the princesses and prepared to leave Saint Petersburg, recording Anastasia’s identity in a dossier.

• Roy used Humanity's Order to correct Alaya’s view of Anastasia, though the ritual left him mentally strained.
• Roy presided over the Romanov family’s funeral and arranged passage, protection, and money for Olga, Tatiana, and Maria to travel to North America.
• Anastasia said goodbye to her sisters and asked Roy to stay close, calling him her only one.
• Two officers questioned Roy about the missing Imperial Princesses, and he denied knowing where they were while allowing them to search the church.
• Georgy explained that the inquiry was only a formality because the Great Teacher had tacitly accepted Roy’s protection of the princesses.
• Roy prepared to leave Saint Petersburg and began a dossier identifying Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanov as a member of the Burial Agency.

Roy and Anastasia arrived in London together, where Roy established the Holy Church’s headquarters and residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The Clock Tower magi reacted uneasily to his arrival, while Roy prepared to take up his new post.

• Roy sealed Anastasia’s dossier with the Supreme Pontiff’s authority and welcomed her offer of coffee.
• Anastasia confessed her jealousy and feelings for Roy, then boldly pressed him into a chair after drinking vodka.
• Roy and Anastasia arrived in London by liner and traveled toward their new home together.
• Clock Tower magi discussed Roy’s arrival and the threat it posed to the Albion Mausoleum, but Lord Balueretta remained silent.
• Roy made St. Paul’s Cathedral his London residence and Holy Church headquarters, then changed into Anglican vestments.

Roy established the Zero Diocese under his direct authority in London and met with Inorai Balueretta, the Clock Tower Lord sent to negotiate with him. Inorai asked Roy to state the Church’s position toward the Clock Tower, and he left her waiting for a definite answer.

• Roy explained to Anastasia why he had divided the Church’s dioceses and established the Zero Diocese under his direct control.
• Inorai Balueretta visited Roy at St. Paul’s Cathedral on behalf of the Clock Tower, and she met Anastasia, the missing Romanov Imperial Princess.
• Roy invited Inorai to a café, where she explained the Clock Tower’s department structure and Roy asked why she had been chosen to meet him.
• Inorai asked Roy for a definite answer about the Church’s attitude toward the Clock Tower.

Roy negotiated with Inorai for the Church to gain authority to punish magi, while Inorai offered personal compensation. In 1934, Anastasia remained forever seventeen after merging with a Heroic Spirit, and she told Roy that Inorai had come to see him.

• Roy told Inorai that the Church would leave Albion Mausoleum alone if the Clock Tower accepted its right to carry out justice against magi who went too far.
• Inorai said the Clock Tower had approved Roy's proposal and explained that Bartholomew had withdrawn after its defeat in the Tunguska incident.
• Inorai offered to accept Roy's punishment and asked to meet him at a hotel, while Roy told her to finish her coffee first.
• Jubstacheit von Einzbern chose to pursue both plans for the Holy Grail War: summoning Angra Mainyu and summoning a Ruler.
• In 1934, Roy examined Solomon's ring atop St. Paul's Cathedral and wondered whether Solomon had gone beyond the world.
• Anastasia told Roy that Inorai had come to see him and insisted that she was still seventeen because her age had stopped when she merged with a Heroic Spirit.

Roy traveled with Anastasia to Germany before continuing to the Far East, where he infiltrated the Einzbern Winter Castle to obtain its core. He explained that the Einzbern family had become an artificial system devoted to recreating the Third Magic, and left with a control device that would keep its homunculi operating.

• Inorai told Roy that the Yggdmillennia family had joined the German military to seize the Holy Grail, so Roy decided to travel to the Far East himself.
• Roy and Anastasia flew to Germany and secretly entered the Einzbern family's Winter Castle.
• Roy explained that the Einzbern family's founders had pursued the Third Magic, but their research eventually became focused on creating homunculi.
• Roy revealed that Golem Jubstacheit, the Einzbern core, continued the family's mission as an artificial intelligence after the true magi had left.
• Roy cut a piece from the core to make a terminal control device, then reshaped it into a remote control.

Roy traveled to Fuyuki City to obtain the Third Magic and recruit someone to handle his duties, while Anastasia destroyed Darnic Preston Yggdmillennia's camp. At the end, Roy encountered the wounded Tohsaka and Edelfelt, who feared the powerful cleric as he saw how badly their Magic Circuits had been damaged.

• Roy traveled to Fuyuki City, intending to learn the Einzbern family's Third Magic and find someone to work for him.
• Darnic Preston Yggdmillennia planned to steal the Great Holy Grail with German military support and keep it from Reinhardt and the German Leader.
• Anastasia confronted Darnic Preston Yggdmillennia's camp and froze its soldiers and magi, destroying the entire unit.
• Roy reached Fuyuki City and met the injured Tohsaka and Edelfelt near the church.
• Tohsaka and Edelfelt feared Roy's overwhelming presence, while Roy recognized that their Magic Circuits had suffered irreversible damage.

Roy heard the report on the Third Holy Grail War, then came to Fuyuki to find Shirou Amakusa, whom he intended to recruit to handle the Holy Church’s affairs. Shirou struggled toward the polluted Great Holy Grail to complete his materialization as Roy and two others approached.

• Roy welcomed Kirei and his son Risei at the Fuyuki Church, while Tohsaka and Edelfelt learned that Roy was the Supreme Pontiff.
• Tohsaka and Edelfelt reported that the Einzbern Family’s summoned Servants and the twins’ divided Saber had failed, and damage to the Lesser Grail had ended the war early.
• Roy let Tohsaka and Edelfelt leave after they handed over their remaining Command Seals, and Anastasia arrived at the church.
• Anastasia told Roy that the German soldiers and Romanian magi had been dealt with, and Kirei invited Roy and Anastasia to dinner.
• Roy told Kirei that Shirou Amakusa had survived the Command Seal ordering his death and led Kirei toward the Great Holy Grail.
• Shirou Amakusa struggled through the underground cavern, seeking the Grail’s leaking energy so he could materialize, as Roy and two others approached.

Shiro Amakusa abandoned the Holy Grail’s Third Magic after Roy revealed the Right Hand of God, then joined the Burial Agency and spent years managing Church affairs. In 1951, Roy and Anastasia traveled to France after learning that Marisbury Animusphere had obtained a mysterious object from space and wanted to meet.

• Roy confronted Shiro Amakusa beneath Ryuudou Temple, and Shiro Amakusa turned away from the Holy Grail after seeing the Right Hand of God.
• Shiro Amakusa asked Roy to let him follow at his side, and Roy later gave him a position in the Burial Agency.
• Roy and Anastasia discussed Father Kirei’s death at St. Paul’s Cathedral while Shiro Amakusa handled Church affairs.
• An executor told Roy that Marisbury Animusphere had obtained a mysterious extraterrestrial object and requested a meeting.
• Roy arranged to meet Marisbury Animusphere in France and traveled there with Anastasia.

Roy met Marisbury Animusphere in Paris, where the Celestial Arts Department Lord sought Church funding and support for Chaldea. Roy agreed to support the project and help connect its ritual to the Record of Existence, while Marisbury requested the Ring of Solomon as a catalyst; Roy then traveled to Rouen to canonize Joan of Arc.

• Roy and Anastasia traveled through Paris, where Roy joked about France’s wartime military salute and Anastasia lamented the devastation of war.
• Marisbury Animusphere brought Roy information about an extraterrestrial embryo and proposed that the Church fund Chaldea, the Animusphere Family’s human-order preservation organization.
• Roy learned that Marisbury hoped to finance Chaldea by using the Fuyuki Holy Grail, and told him that the Grail had been corrupted and could no longer be used.
• Marisbury proposed building a new Holy Grail ritual, and Roy agreed to support Chaldea and help connect the ritual to the Record of Existence if Marisbury completed the preliminary work.
• Marisbury asked Roy to lend him the Ring of Solomon as a catalyst.
• Roy went to Rouen on May 30 to canonize Joan of Arc.

Roy Crowley approached Touko Aozaki at a London bar, where her curiosity about his seemingly perfect body overcame her suspicion that he was a mage. Their conversation began as Roy tried to draw her in, leaving Touko engaged with him.

• Touko Aozaki considered accepting the advances of a handsome stranger to relieve the pressure she faced at the Clock Tower.
• Touko sensed that the stranger's body was unnaturally perfect and tested him with magical energy, but he showed no sign of being a mage.
• The man introduced himself as Roy Crowley, and Touko gave him her name.
• Roy asked whether Touko came from the Far East Island Nation and observed that she was new to London and rarely visited bars.
• Touko examined Roy's polished manners as they shared a drink and recognized his patient efforts to draw her into conversation.

Touko Aozaki tried to draw Roy Crowley into a conversation at a London bar, but her plans were disrupted when the famous singer and Witch Mei Rider Acherlot joined them. The chapter ended with Touko’s teacher, Inorai Balueretta Atolohom, arriving with Cornelius Araruba and Souren Araya and warning Roy not to take advantage of Touko.

• Touko Aozaki told Roy Crowley about her supposed financial troubles as a student in London while hoping to get money from him.
• Mei Rider Acherlot arrived at the bar and reunited with Touko, then questioned whether Roy was Touko’s boyfriend.
• Roy introduced himself to Rider and said his family did business with hers, prompting Rider to invite him to visit her home.
• Touko reconsidered her plan to approach Roy after learning he was wealthy and connected to Rider’s family.
• Inorai Balueretta Atolohom entered through a shifted phase with Cornelius Araruba and Souren Araya, greeted Touko, and warned Roy not to exploit her.

Roy visited a bar where Touko Aozaki and other magi were gathered, alarming them with his connection to Inorai and his interest in the Botany Department’s students. He left after confirming the person he sought was not on this year’s list, and Inorai revealed that Roy was the Holy Church’s Supreme Pontiff, the mysterious world’s most feared enemy.

• Cornelius Alba taunted Touko Aozaki at the bar, while Souren Araya watched Roy with suspicion.
• Inorai revealed her youthful appearance, took a seat beside Roy, and reproached him for possibly ruining her valued disciple, Touko Aozaki.
• Roy discussed Sealing Designations with Inorai and praised Touko Aozaki, making her fear that his attention would provoke Alba’s jealousy.
• Inorai gave Roy the Botany Department’s new-student list, but he found that the person he sought was still absent and asked for the list each year.
• Roy said Marisbury Animusphere would soon fulfill a promise, then left after telling Touko Aozaki that their connection would continue.
• Inorai identified Roy as the Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Church, and Alba, Touko Aozaki, and the other magi reacted with fear.

Anastasia wrote a final letter to her aging sisters and found comfort with Roy, while Marisbury Animusphere revealed his plan to build Chaldea by diverting the Aozaki Family’s leyline to Tokyo for a Holy Grail War. Roy disclosed that the threat Marisbury feared had already been removed: Father Fumitsugu had killed the Old Magician of the Aozaki Family.

• Touko Aozaki and Inorai discussed Roy’s nature and joked about Touko seducing him, while Liddell panicked after hearing his name.
• Anastasia wrote a heartfelt letter to her three sisters, then welcomed Roy home and spoke with him about their aging and her fear of losing them.
• Marisbury showed Roy the nearly completed Chaldeas project and explained that the Animusphere Family needed the Holy Grail War’s funds to establish Chaldea.
• Marisbury revealed that he planned to divert the Aozaki Family’s leyline from Misaki City to Shinjuku Gyoen and asked the Church to help neutralize the Magician.
• Roy told Marisbury that the Magician was already half dead and that Father Fumitsugu had killed the Old Magician after Touko Aozaki was denied the inheritance.

Marisbury explained Chaldea’s plans to Roy, who decided to use an Atlas Contract to borrow the Black Barrel. Years later, Touko Aozaki became a Crowned Mage and left London to reunite with her sister; the story then introduced Aoko Aozaki in rainy Misaki City.

• Roy learned that the Church’s agent had killed the Aozaki magician’s body, and Marisbury said he would handle the Witch and her apprentice.
• Marisbury described his plans for Chaldea, including obtaining a simulated spiritual computer through the Atlas Institute.
• Roy said he would use the Church’s Atlas Contract to borrow the Black Barrel.
• Touko Aozaki became a Crowned Mage after selling her recreated Rune Runes research to the Clock Tower.
• Touko told Roy she was returning to Misaki City to meet her sister and left her workshop.
• Aoko Aozaki walked home through the rain in Misaki City.

Aoko Aozaki met Roy Crowley and Anastasia on a rainy day in Misaki City and guided them to a ramen shop. After Roy paid for her meal, he offered to take her home, leaving Aoko grateful for the strangers’ kindness.

• Aoko Aozaki abandoned the muddy climb home and headed toward the shopping district to find an affordable meal.
• Roy Crowley stopped Aoko Aozaki and asked for directions and a recommendation for a ramen shop, so she offered to lead him and Anastasia there.
• Aoko Aozaki learned that Anastasia could speak Japanese and noticed Anastasia’s coldness toward her, while Roy and Anastasia ordered lavish ramen meals.
• Roy Crowley paid for Aoko Aozaki’s ramen, and she bought pan-fried dumplings to take home to Alice Kuonji.
• Unable to borrow an umbrella, Aoko Aozaki accepted Roy Crowley’s offer to take her home after he reassured her.

Roy and Anastasia visited Aoko Aozaki, then went to meet Fumihito Eiri, who revealed where the Old Magician of the Aozaki Family was hiding. Meanwhile, Aoko returned to the mansion and prepared to patrol with Alice Kuonji, leaving the story poised for Roy to confront the Old Magician.

• Aoko Aozaki escorted Roy and Anastasia to the mansion but did not invite them inside because Alice Kuonji disliked strangers.
• Roy told Anastasia that Aoko was the Magician he had sought, then left to meet Fumihito Eiri at the Aozaki Family's old residence.
• Aoko brought Alice Kuonji pan-fried dumplings, and Alice warned her that Misaki City felt dangerous and ordered her to patrol that night.
• Alice told Aoko that a childhood friend would visit soon, surprising Aoko, who went upstairs to get ready.
• Fumihito Eiri told Roy that the Old Magician's remnant soul was in a cave behind the Aozaki Family's main residence and said he wanted to kill him as a heretic.